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  • Is pet ownership sustainable?

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • April 23
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    There has been much talk about sustainability, but little attention has been paid to its nutritional aspects. University of Illinois animal sciences researcher Kelly Swanson, in cooperation with scientists at natural pet food maker The Nutro Company, h...

  • Family ties: Relationship between human and zebrafish genomes

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • April 18
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    Completion of the zebrafish reference genome yields strong comparisons with the human genome
    Researchers demonstrate today that 70 per cent of protein-coding human genes are related to genes found in the zebrafish and that 84 per cent of genes known t...

  • Social media can support healthiness of older people

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • April 17
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    The use of social media by older people can offer valuable additional support in cases of sickness and diseases, new research from the University of Luxembourg has shown. In a new publication, Dr Anja Leist from the University’s Research Unit INS...

  • Draw me a picture of uncertainty

    • Posted by Figen Eker
    • April 17
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    New research exposes the limitations of environmental models and data sets by providing easy-to-understand pictures displaying the extent of their reliability
    Our data on the natural world is uncertain. And so are the models we use to make sense of it...

  • A look at the world explains 90 percent of changes in vegetation

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • April 16
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    In the last thirty years, vegetation has changed significantly the world over. Until recently, the extent to which the climate or humankind was responsible remained unclear. However, geographers from the University of Zurich and colleagues from the Net...

  • Blue tits provide insight into climate change

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • April 15
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    Researchers believe that the size of birds’ nests created in response to changing weather patterns may be partly to blame for reproductive failures over the last two years.
    An article in the April edition of The Biologist, the Society of Biology...

  • Scientists create phantom sensations in non-amputees

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • April 11
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    The sensation of having a physical body is not as self-evident as one might think. Almost everyone who has had an arm or leg amputated experiences a phantom limb: a vivid sensation that the missing limb is still present. A new study by neuroscientists ...

  • Surf's up: Turbulence tells sea urchins to settle down

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • April 10
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    Tumbling in the waves as they hit a rocky shore tells purple sea urchin larvae it's time to settle down and look for a spot to grow into an adult, researchers at the University of California, Davis, Bodega Marine Laboratory have found. The work is publ...

  • Mind over matter? Study led by NUS researcher reveals for the first time that core body temperature can be controlled by the br

    • Posted by Anne Korn
    • April 9
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    A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Maria Kozhevnikov from the Department of Psychology at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences showed, for the first time, that it is possible for core body tempera...

  • INDIA’S LEAD OVER OTHER COUNTRIES IN X-RAY AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS, ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY AND SOLAR PHYSICS.

    Revolutionary breakthrough in solar physics: Discovery of Sun’s Bharat Radiation emission causing Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) and UV dominant optical radiation'